While I am definitely a fan of game developer property rights -- which means I believe this is their house and they can do pretty much whatever they want which isn't criminal, to include deleting posts or banning users purely on whim, much less with good reason -- in terms of what I tolerate from other forum users, I'm pretty easygoing. I mean, if I was running a forum, trolling wouldn't be against the rules, because I think some of the more genuinely interesting debates become genuinely interesting because you have one or more participants who believe what they believe with a passion, and some of that passion would be stifled if expressing it was strictly forbidden. I'd consider the intent behind such antagonization to be far more important; there's a difference between someone "doing it for the lulz" and someone with perhaps too much conviction.
And it genuinely bothers me that I'm not allowed to swear here. I feel I do so rather effectively, and having one of my rhetorical techniques denied to me sometimes feels like having my hands tied. I'm having a surprising amount of trouble finding the ESRB rating (perhaps there isn't one due to Larian's location), but it's a game with sufficient adult material, so I don't see the need to be family-friendly in terms of language. They're still the boss, I respect that, but it's a decision I don't understand.
But I digress. Hiver obviously isn't in it for the lulz here.
Last edited by ScrotieMcB; 26/07/14 09:53 AM.
